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You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
Doors
Nobody
Goes
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Best
Shut
Baseball

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Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.
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Always give an autograph when somebody asks you.
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When you - when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that's a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you're doing.
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No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
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I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, Hey, you can't run too much. Or if you're a boxer you say, Hey, you can only box three rounds. It's not right!
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it not hard enough and it flies away.
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Say 'Dodgers' and people know you're talking about baseball. Say 'Braves' and they ask, 'What reservation?' Say 'Reds' and they think of communism. Say 'Padres' and they look around for a priest.
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If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.
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Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
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Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
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The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
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I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.
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Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?
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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.
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